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Kinship Systems: Change and Reconstruction
Patrick McConvell
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Description for Kinship Systems: Change and Reconstruction
Hardcover. Editor(s): McConvell, Senior Lecturer Department of Anthropology Patrick (Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Canberra Northern Territory University Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Canberra Northern Territory University); Keen, Lecturer and Visiting Fellow School of Archaeology and Anthropology Ian (Australian National University); Henderey, Rachel. Num Pages: 288 pages, colour illustrations. BIC Classification: CFF; JHBK; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 282 x 218 x 20. Weight in Grams: 885.
Kinship systems are the glue that holds social groups together. This volume presents a novel approach to understanding the genesis of these systems and how and why they change. The editors bring together experts from the disciplines of anthropology and linguistics to explore kinship in societies around the world and to reconstruct kinship in ancient times. Kinship Systems presents evidence of renewed activity and advances in this field in recent years which will contribute to the current interdisciplinary focus on the evolution of society. While all continents are touched on in this book, there is special emphasis on Australian indigenous ... Read more
Kinship systems are the glue that holds social groups together. This volume presents a novel approach to understanding the genesis of these systems and how and why they change. The editors bring together experts from the disciplines of anthropology and linguistics to explore kinship in societies around the world and to reconstruct kinship in ancient times. Kinship Systems presents evidence of renewed activity and advances in this field in recent years which will contribute to the current interdisciplinary focus on the evolution of society. While all continents are touched on in this book, there is special emphasis on Australian indigenous ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Utah Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
284
Place of Publication
Salt Lake City, United States
ISBN
9781607812449
SKU
V9781607812449
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Ref
99-1
About Patrick McConvell
Patrick McConvell is a linguist and anthropologist who has carried out research in several areas of Australia. A research fellow at the Australian National University, he is coeditor of Archaeology and Linguistics and author of a number of articles on kinship and kinship change. Together with co-editors Keen and Hendery he has worked on the AustKin project in recent years. ... Read more
Reviews for Kinship Systems: Change and Reconstruction
“A much-needed volume in the revival of kinship analysis and of great importance to all that specialize in this field. I was very impressed with the high level of scholarship.”—Bojka Milicic, coeditor of Kinship, Language, and Prehistory: Per Hage and the Renaissance in Kinship Studies (The University of Utah Press, 2010)